A bug I have had since day one on the site (a couple of years(?)) is that when I put a line in between paragraphs, the site posts without the lines, cramming my lines together. The line break is there, but the blank line in between paragraphs is missing.

If I go back and edit a post and put in the blank lines again, it usually shows them when saving the post.

I use Chrome on Win 10 most of the time.

Gregg

I'm using Firefox and have started noticing the same issue. However, I seem to recall that this was not the case until recent months. (I know, my developers would KILL me if I brought it up and failed to provide browser version on BEFORE and AFTER environments, patches, etc. but I was never really good at catching these bugs until they became annoying, or someone asked about them).

Clicking on Groups from the home page opens up and seems to broke? Cant seem to scroll down and go to any groups but the ones shown. Can scroll through all groups but not my groups. Not sure if thats a bug or not...feel like it might be.

FWIW: The font used for the Spark! headings has got larger. It did make me snap my head back when it appeared on screen this morning. It's still readable, but just makes things look a little crowded.

The larger blue buttons look fine.

Also FWIW: I don''t believe in having a 'Spice Down' button. One look at Stackoverflow shows how people are berated and bullied for just spelling something wrong or asking a question a little off context, or even asking something a little obvious in the heat of the moment.As professionals on the receiving end of what can be disproportionately angry people we should be promoting good will and supporting each other, not making people feel unwanted.I could be wrong I suppose, but then I come from the days of the alt.mountainbiking newgroup and the hate fest created by Mike Vandeman.

Thanks for the feedback, we're working on it! Using different tagging going forward, but headlines in the old Sparks will be a bit large.

I spent a few seconds trying to zoom out, thinking I'd changed some settings :)

As many have mentioned, the buttons look a bit big - but otherwise on Mac / Safari everything else seems to render fine for me.

One thing though is the buttons feel very flat now - I believe they used to be 3d-ish.

Main point though is that when you hover over the spice button, it has "Spice Down" which shows up first - which looks like it's hover text. Giving the impression that clicking on the button will spice the topic down. After a few seconds the Spice this! hover text shows up - but then it looks conflicting.

Haters gonna hate, users gonna use. Don't mind the nay-sayers, Calibri is a perfectly legible font, very well designed for optimal stroke/open space in medium sizes. Maybe it's hip now or whatever, but that's just because someone with ($salary < $user.age * 1000) was exploring what's available and stumbled upon an ancient secret. Bandwagons being what they are, just be glad it wasn't Times New Roman!

Also, HEADLINES! They're big and bold necessarily, and that's a good thing. I'll reiterate my $.02, these changes are good for legibility.

Wow, how to create a workload for the developers! I feel for you guys right now after reading through the last 5 pages.

How did the testing go? ;¬)

So far five pages of bug reports and bitching...

Actually it's not that bad... I've only written up 4 new bug tickets based off the thing reported in this topic. We caught a lot more minor items beforehand that should be fixed in tomorrows patch. :^)

I did a quick look-through in this thread to see if anyone had mentioned this potential issue. My daily challenge question didn't show the "% of IT Pros got this right" message after answering the question.

Dunno if that's related to the design change. Maybe I'm just the first person to answer the question. In that case 100% of IT Pros have gotten this question right.

I don't think that's related to the change. The percentage only shows after it's been taken a certain amount of times. It' a really new question so it probably just hasn't reached that point yet.

Also FWIW: I don''t believe in having a 'Spice Down' button. One look at Stackoverflow shows how people are berated and bullied for just spelling something wrong or asking a question a little off context, or even asking something a little obvious in the heat of the moment.As professionals on the receiving end of what can be disproportionately angry people we should be promoting good will and supporting each other, not making people feel unwanted.I could be wrong I suppose, but then I come from the days of the alt.mountainbiking newgroup and the hate fest created by Mike Vandeman.

You always could spice down topics but the new design makes that much more obvious. I don't see a way to spice down individual comments so I don't think there will be any change to the SW community.

The page numbers at the top and bottom of topics/threads have all the pretty numbers. If you happen to be on the last page, NEXT is greyed out because there is no next page. Kudos. Even hovering shows that you shouldn't press the link. Kudos. However, you can click and it simply reloads the page. Shouldn't the link be completely disabled?

I just noticed that it's much harder to tell if you've spiced a topic already. The sunken look that it had before was a nice visual indicator. I don't understand why design trends everywhere have been going "flat" in the last few years. It just makes everything look bland and less functional. At the same time, not every button needs to be quite so round. They look odd next to all the other perfectly square spaces, and straight lines, such as the ads and comment entry boxes.

Overall it's OK. I don't like the home button missing because most pages thought the web have a home button and that is the first thing I look for. I realize it was redundant, and when I didn't see it, I did just click the logo even though I hadn't read your announcement that it was going away. I'll get used to it, but on first launch I thought something was wrong.

I agree with those who say the font is too light. I don't care if it's thin although I personally like a font with wider lines. When quoting a post it is WAAAY to light, I have to squint and lean into the monitor.

As long as you are making a bar across the top that does not scroll, it would be nice if the comments notification icon was in there.

This is what I see. The response box is how it looks to me on my personal Windows 10 system using Edge. Robert's post is what I see on Windows 7 using Firefox. Note how clean the response box is vs. the actual post.